Disease
The use of practices to reduce disease-causing organisms
What is medical asepsis?
The rapid onset of symptoms that can be severe, but lasts short time
What is acute infection?
The acronym for OSHA
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
The disease-causing organism or agent
What is a pathogen?
The medical terminology word for disease
What is path/o?
A test that measures the amount of antibodies found in a person's blood
What is a titer?
The disease that persists for a long time, sometimes for life
What is chronic infection?
The abbreviation for Urinary Tract Infection
What is UTI
The illness caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking structures or systems within the body
What is an Autoimmune disease?
The medical terminology word for immunity
What is immun/o?
Reducing the number of pathogens to a level where they can not be harmful
What is sanitization?
The smallest of all pathogenic microbes and are unable to reproduce on their own
What is viruses?
The acronym for CDC
What is Center for Disease Control and Prevention?
The thick-walled, dormant form of bacteria that is very resistant to disinfection measures
What is spores?
The medical terminology for between
What is inter-?
The process of eliminating most to all pathogenic microorganisms, with exception to spores
What is disinfection?
The living organism that the pathogen resides within
What is a host?
The abbreviation for OPIM
What is medical aseptic technique?
The medical terminology word for instrument to view
What is -scope?
The process of destroying all microorganisms on a specific surface
What is sterilization?
The persistent infection in which the symptoms cycle through periods of relapse and remission
What is latent infection?
The acronym for personal protective equipment
What is sterile technique?
The medical terminology for small
What is micro?